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Issuers should consider which competent authorities are relevant to each set of obligations.

The Companies Act 2014 (Commencement) Order 2015 was signed on 1 May 2015 by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton.

Retail clients may be treated as professional on request and thereby waive some protections afforded under the MiFID conduct of business regime.

Following a public consultation on a proposed new minimum competency regime late last year, the Central Bank has published an updated Minimum Competency Code

On 31 March, 2016 the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") published its final Guidelines on sound remuneration policies under the UCITS Directive and AIFMD (the "Guidelines").

The Central Bank has published the CBI UCITS (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (the "Amending Regulations").

Recent reports from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Ireland predict that the economy will grow by 3.4% this year, higher than the Government’s 2.1% estimate.

The extension of the Passport is subject to the acceptance by European Parliament, Council and Commission of positive advices from the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA").

The European ETF industry has 1,519 ETFs listed on 24 exchanges in 21 countries at the end of October 2015, according to ETFGI.

On 14 December 2015, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published its programme of themed inspections (the "Programme"), reflecting its supervisory priorities for 2016 and anticipating areas of emerging risk.

On 5 May 2015, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published Consultation Paper 94 on Corporate Governance Requirements for Investment Firms (the "Consultation Paper").

The Central Bank has published a Consultation Paper on a number of initiatives "designed to underpin the achievement of substantive control by fund management companies".

On the 9th of February 2015, the Central Bank of Ireland published its statement of enforcement priorities for 2015.

ESMA issued a statement earlier this month about the potential for some European collective investment funds to be "closet index trackers"

A discussion relating to a recent decision, which has important implications for insolvency procedures and particularly the difference between Cayman Islands law and the UK and USA.

Lagan had instructed Ben McArdle Ltd to procure a policy of professional indemnity insurance in respect of their civil engineering business.

Ireland has a well-established reputation as a leading funds centre, being home to 6,470 regulated investment funds as of December 2016 according to the Central Bank of Ireland...